Thunderbird email (where IMAP or POP) still downloads the subject lines (at minimum) into a local database. This is a potential security threat if the laptop falls into unfriendly hands.
Solution : Move local data store into a directory protected by EncFS
The following assumes that you can find the data store under the server [...]

So that I could continue developing the ‘Trading Account Management’ system while on the road, the installation of lighttpd/database had to be secured. In particular, sqlite had to be used rather than mysql, since the data in the database itself was critical to the business (and there was no time to conjure up ‘fake [...]

Quick script for a laptop – to protect data (somehow this has never occurred to anyone the UK government employs…) :
#!/bin/bash
DIALOGTEXT=”Enter the Fieldstone EncFS Password”
encfs \
-o allow_other \
–extpass=”zenity –title ‘EncFS Password’ –entry –hide-text –text ‘$DIALOGTEXT’” \
~/.Fieldstone.encfs/ ~/Fieldstone/
This can be paired with an un-mounter :
#!/bin/bash
fusermount -u Fieldstone